Dear Richard Mayson,
After several years reading your books I have just confirmed while reading most of your answers the distinction that I have conferred upon you. I still keep in my mind the experience that it was reading the "Porto e o Douro" - my lifetime "Port book" as an authentic and "first-person" documentary that convinced me that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I imagine how real was the struggle to do it. I imagine the visualization and affirmation until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized to bring us such a nice book - full of passion - that I still keep next to my bed.
As a Port lover and
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follower I am very grateful for the interest you have shown to come here and share your thoughts no matter the trouble in providing such interesting information about your activities. This feature is sure to inspire and encourage many other in other areas.
Now, time for my question:
Considering the fact that you have been specialising in Portuguese wines for over twenty years and are the author of five books on the subject, what made you in the late 1980's to identify the Portalegre area as one of the leading long-term wine regions in Portugal so that in 2005 you invested in your Quinta do Centro project?
My point is: Why Portalegre (Alentejo) and not the Douro Valley? Which key points did you consider and also after 4 years what expectations and plans do you've for the Sonho Lusitano venture that you have with Rui Reguinga?
Thank you and I look forward to read all your thoughts,
PS - please allow me to join our numerous
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friends in offering congratulations and to say - what other have said before - that no one deserves a tribute for another amazing
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idea better than Roy!
Gustavo
Together we fall, united we stand.